Improvement in cigar-machines



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. To all 'whom/.ct mag/'concern Be itA known that we, HENRY SCHILD andv GEORGE J. PRENTIOE, ofthe city4 and Stateof New York, haveV invented and madea certain new v'and useful' Improvement in, Cigar-Machines; andwev do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of .the said invention, reference being had to the anpexed drawing, making part of this specification, wlrercm-r 4 l Figure 1 isa 'plan oftheimachine..l

Figure 2 is a section-of the same, transversely of the rollers., i p

Figure 3 'is a section of the tip-die.

Figure4 isan elevation of the screw-clutch and lever. y Figure 5 is a plan, and

vFigure 6, an clevation'of a variation of the screwclutch and lever.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

This invention is designed to facilitate the construction ofthe cigar-machine, lessen its'cost, increase the',

durability, and allowthe same machine to be employed in making the bunches, or in put-ting on either a right or a left-hand wrapper,.and completing the cigar, including the conical tip. Y

We are aware that cigar-machines have before been made, .in which four rollers have been employed to vroll the cigar, and! put'on the wrapper, and form the tip, andl that to one of, the rollers an end-movement has been given. so as to force the cigar either wayinto the tip-die.

The nature'of our said invention consists in anec? centric bearing for the ba'ck upper roller, and the frame that carries the forward upper roller, so that by the act of moring'the frame, to raise the front upper roller, therear upper roller will be carriedback by its eccentric bearings, so as to liberate the cigar, and give room for introducing the next bunch or filler.

We also make use of a shaft, with a right and left screw out upon it, and use a vmovable tooth or rack,

that is placed so as to take either one screw-thread or the other, and give endnnotion to the roller in one directionor the other,.and said rack can be placed so as notitoftouch either screw, and thereby the machine is adapted to making bunches, as well as putting O11 the wrappers, as aforesaid.

In the drawinga is part of a table or support for the machine.

b b', the side frames', connected by the boltc.

cl, e, f, andy, areihe rollers, having India-rubber or other surfaces; and the shafts of these rollerscarry pinions outside the frame b', that are driven by the,

central inion h. iig. 1. lwo of these inions tand.

1c, are shown in iig. 1.

The shaft f', ofthe roller j', is set in the frame that wl'iicli they are united. .A i -This frameis =madewith large-circnlar.trun`nions,

the roller f, lifted as shown by the red lines, iig. 2,

g, passes; but said shaft does not pass through the cent ric bearings o, for the frame ZJ fm, and 'shaft g'.

It will be understood, byn'eference to figs. 2 and 3, that the act of swinging up the roller j throws `back lthe roller g, in consequence of the eccentrieity-of the bearings o, so that the finished cigar or` .bunch is liberated.

directly to the harm by a rod, fm, as in fig. 2,-01' to an arm, ml, as in figal.

The die that is used for forming-the tip of the cigar,

with the table p, upon which the leaf-is laid, care being taken that the parts are smooth at thepoints of union next the roller e, a thin plate of'steel may be attached, as shown infig. l2.

The upper para?, of the die is made with a joint at 2, and `a spring, 3, is employed below the bed p, acting against a knuckle of the joint, to keep the die closed, butvallow of the same being opened; and in order to give additional yielding pressure on the die, in forming the tip, the spring 5 is employed, the saine projecting from the'frame l. 1

at each side of the machine, so that the cigar can be made with a wrapper from either half ofthe tobaccoleai`,fthe end-movement of the roller g, that presses the cigar'into the tip-die, being derived from the right and lett-handed screw, as next described.

v Upon one'end of the shaft g', right and left-hand and a tooth is employed to take the screw, and cause end-motion, by the rotation of said roller and screw.

l In figs. l and 4, we have shown theclutch t, on the screw 6, with the teeth 7 and 8, and spring-catch u.

will be forced inone direction, and when the lever and clutch t are turned so that the tooth Stakes the other thread of the screw, the roller will Abe moved the other way. The turning of` the eccentric bearing in clutch, and allows one ofthe springs, 9 or 10,v to slide the pinion t'.

'is formed 'bytli'efsidewpiece's l andi cross-bar.

entering corresponding holes in the frames .lr 1),1'sov that this frame can be' swung on these trunnions, and4 and through these trunnions the shaft g', of the roller centre of these trunnions,'but eccentric thereto, as seen in fig. 3; h`cnce,we term these trnnnions the ec The frame H m is moved by Aa `Ytreadle, connected' is made in two parts. f lhe lower portion, ln, is united` tand to facilitate this, and stii'en the edge of the bedv Dies like those just described are to be employed l screws are cut, the same intersecting, as seen ats,-

When .the tooth 7 is engaged in thescrew, the roller Opening the rollers, disconnects the screw from the the roller and shaft endwisc in its bearings, and through4v The springs 9 and 10 are bent,v so as to reverse the movement of tlreshaft, according to which screw is used, one spring, when set in the eye 2Q, mov-ing the shaft one way, and the other spring, when introduced in the eye instead, giving the other direction of motion. We prefer the button v, figs. 5 aud 6, which can be as not to touch the screw, and the stud w serves to' -hold the same, by taking the surface of the socket in which the 'shank slides.

What weclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

lcombination 'with t-he rollers g f e (l, as

2. The tip-die, made of two parts, and hinged, in,

combination with .thelrollers,to revolve the cigar, and a spring, to press said die together', substantially as set for-th.

3. The shaft g of the roller g, formed with right and' Y left-"hngscrewthreads, in combination with the button or'lutch, that can be enga-ged with eitherfscre'wthread, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

Inwitness whereof', we lhave hereunto setour signatures", Ithis 20th day of April, 1869) HENRY SCHILD.

GEOVJ. PRENTICE."

` Witnesses:- .l u

GEO. T. ,PINCKNEL A 01ans. H. SMITH.y 

